NCAA Corruption Investigation - Kansas Identified?
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@JayHawkFanToo Why are we pretending it isn’t that right now? You have even been one of the people saying that they think these charges are a stretch. If they don’t stick, what is going to keep players from taking the biggest paydays they possibly can from here on out?
Why do you want to continue to force athletes to go to school when that only brings down that academic standards that colleges are supposed to uphold?
Professional sports are using colleges. Colleges should turn the table and use the platform they have established, and are forced to have by profiting from it as much as possible.
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How many many of these cases wouldn’t have happened if the stupid OAD rule wasn’t in place. You’re asking kids that think they are just there for a pit stop to play by the same rules that don’t care as much about the school or what happens when they leave.
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@Buster-1926 Could be.
Maybe you are on to something though.
Conspiracy theory: FBI could be attempting to overthrow the NCAA and NCAA is too dumb to realize it is happening. Make the NCAA look like idiots and the bad guy. This forces schools to quit hiding their athletics department under the umbrella of a nonprofit and turns them into private organizations is potentially billions in tax revenue per year. Not to mention the double-taxation of athletes being paid in the light of day instead of behind closed doors.
Genius if this is what is actually going on.
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@Buster-1926 The incompetence at the NCAA makes the Feds look like geniuses…
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Kcmatt7 said:
They need to make it an environment that players and parents don’t feel like they need to go to agents to get extra cash. I’m not sure exactly how to do that, but there are brighter minds than me that could help to solve the problem.
You realize the NFL is in the same tax category as the NCAA. If they were going to go after anyone in this category it be the NFL. CRAZY $$$$ there. Of course the NCAA may be easier to nab.
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I know we are worried about the possible implications for KU in all this. So far we know of two former players linked to the report.
But imagine being Kentucky, Michigan St, Alabama, Duke with current players listed. What do they do… Do they sit them in fear or play them. I’m sure each school is furiously vetting the situation. We are talking the leading scorers for Michigan St, Kentucky & Alabama & one of Duke’s starters.
This will be interesting to see if all are held out because they are all now aware of what they might not have been aware of before…
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@BigBad NFL gave up tax-exempt status. And the feds are still getting player income tax and the individual teams income. They do not get taxes from individual schools or the scholarships students are paid in from colleges. Which is a much bigger pie than anything else out there right now. Think about ten thousand kids. Think 100 athletic programs making tens of millions in profit.
The FBI wouldn’t be going after the NCAA’s money. They would be going after individual schools athletic programs money. Money that could be touched if they became 100% private, non-sheltered entities.
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I am all for doing way with the OAD rule. I am in favor that if a college is going to spend a ton of money on a player, it should have some assurances he will stick around for at least 3 years.
Also, if colleges are the victims, it should be a civil and not a criminal matter.
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It is interesting the big picture here, isn’t it? It does lead back to the prosecutors’ motives.
Kurtis Townsend was the coach that recruited JJ. So if there is a coach involved, he’d likely be the guy. Big, big “IF”.
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If it becomes a non-profit/tax investigation, they could recover just a couple of years at most. I have no doubt Congress would immediately create all the exemptions necessary to protect the schools and ncaa in future years.
I think the FBI has no reason to try to upset the ncaa apple cart or get rid of it. They like it when big unwieldy organizations get all dysfunctional, and get to take advantage of the investigating private organizatons can do not hampered by DOJ rules.
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@JayHawkFanToo The NCAA has zero to do with the OAD rule.
You are proposing a solution that the NCAA is not in control of. The FBI is not in control of. Only the NBA. And the NBA, because of that rule, gets a free developmental league. So why would they give that up?
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@HighEliteMajor I said before, Townsend is the guy that recruited damn near any sketchy player the entire time under Self. And I think that is on purpose. Either he is the fall guy or he is trusted enough by Self to not do something stupid.
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@Kcmatt7 Isn’t he the one who tried to recruit the porn star?
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@mayjay lol wut?
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Wonder what Self will have to say of the matter or if he would even address it at this point.
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kjayhawks said:
Wonder what Self will have to say of the matter or if he would even address it at this point.
He did not comment on it today when asked
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Potential future headline: With all top teams suspended, 2018 National Championship is Rhode Island vs Loyola Chicago.
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There is public pressure building. It is possible that the NBA could be sued and forced to give up the OAD as it amounts to restriction of trade. If they claim players are not ready for the NBA after HS. there is ample precedent to counter that argument and the court would tell them…if you don’t think a players is ready for your team, then don’t select him.
I can see lots of big changes in college basketball as a result of this investigation and we might be seeing the last of the NCAA and college basketball as we know it.
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Forget the sums of money.
Where did Kansas officials participate in this? We are comparing apples and oranges compared to the first round of busts, where coaching assistants participated in the crimes.
I’ve only read a little today… but from what I read, Kansas isn’t guilty of anything and is as much a victim as anything else.
We’ve all been worried about Billy’s situation this year. From what I know so far, Billy’s situation shows just how responsible Kansas is when a problem comes up.
Perhaps the Billy situation will become a huge PLUS for us as this progresses.
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@drgnslayr And Cliff. And Diallo.
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@drgnslayr apples.
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Apparently Alexander did not get money or mom spent it very quickly and had to go get loan after Cliff was already playing at KU.
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Haven’t got that far. Not sure I will until tonight, when I free up more time.
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KU is the only team that was willing to keep players out with any smoke. How in the hell can KU even be mentioned after the players we have sat out each season. This is a joke. It’s a witch hunt and the so-called list is simply a way to show that all major programs were investigated. It does NOT surprise me at all that KU was in fact investigated, makes absolute perfect sense. So it appears that past players that graduated received money? Unless they can name recruiting violations and that KU knowingly allowed a player to play, this shouldn’t be a problem.
All the blue bloods were investigated, but only investigated, or audited. Let’s see if they find something in the mess KU’s compliance dept already investigated. Why do you all think Billy P never played? There was smoke and we never played him. They have jack on KU. Pat Forde is an idiot because he actually defeated his own theory by naming all the players that were mentioned. They were all investigated and the NCAA even cleared them, IF they played.
Also, if KU was HOT, they would’ve dropped the hammer already.
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@Crimsonorblue22 oranges.
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It is Pat Forde drawing the inferences, what can you expect?
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@drgnslayr Isn’t the issue that any player that accepted money is potentially ineligible and thus what to do about wins during the season that player participated?
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Apples (Jones)
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I guarantee you if this is as bad as it appears, the NCAA will handle this diplomatically for the sake of the game. This is long overdue, but it appears the OTHER programs had current and just recent players on the list, ie. dook, uk, usc, unc, ncst, scarolina, wsu (Marcia)?..
It seems some KU board rats are slightly intrigued by the possibility of KU being ‘indicted.’ I wonder why Wiggins has been SO SO SO quiet. I don’t hear much from him. Also we recruited and signed our current or incoming class the old fashioned way. It seems we earned them. I think we are seeing a little more clearly why Billy P and his mom made their choice. I have a bad feeling she accepted money and that car had something to do with it. But thankfully he never played and violated any rules.
Has KU dodged the proverbial bullet?
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@JayHawkFanToo Maybe this will finally get the pros out of the college game. The system as is …is a joke. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if every top player wasn’t given major bucks from Big Shoe under the table.
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@truehawk93 Self knew the risks when Billy was signed and once things were uncovered there was no way he was going to risk playing Preston in the current climate. That’s my read on it anyway.
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Duke saying no eligibility concerns with Wendell Carter. Lolz. I almost want them to win it all now just to vacate it later.
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Kcmatt7 said:
Duke saying no eligibility concerns with Wendell Carter. Lolz. I almost want them to win it all now just to vacate it later.
rofl
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I’m glad this is coming out in large clumps. This will surely change the leverage of this situation between schools and the NCAA. If this was just us, we’d get shackled on anything.
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I was under the impression that Preston’s problems were more academic and he had cleared them at his last HS. Once he was cleared by the NCAA there was no reason to think there was anything else. Had Coach Self thought there were other issues he would have not pursued him…that is my take.
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@BShark I have seen this comment a lot about Self “knowing the risks” in signing Billy. I know about the several schools issue and the risk of ineligibility there, but did I miss something somewhere where there were hints of impermissible benefits?
Of what risks, pray tell, dost thou speak?
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@mayjay The risk he might not play a game when we signed him. There is a reason that despite his talent the other big boys were not involved.
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Also something else to remember with Apples Jones, she ran an AAU program so that money could have been for just about anything. Probably Josh but who knows.
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@BShark If I’m not mistaken, JJ hadn’t yet committed to KU when she took the money, right?
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@JayHawkFanToo Preston had the stink of desperation after the Ayton miss. Probably wouldn’t have touched him with a 10 foot poll otherwise. And forced him into an early commitment so they could actually see what the hell they were dealing with academically and get him eligible. They did the academic part, but always knew he was a risk. Part of the reason I think the compliance department even looked into the car was because they knew they needed to be extra careful with BP.
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@BShark I think knowing the risks of speeding, that you might crash, are different from knowing the risks of an asteroid hitting your car, even though both involve the risk of not reaching your destination.
In this case, HCBS and staff had a chance to investigate and predict the risk of a bad result of the academic issue. There was also precedent from other kids. That is entirely different from anticipating losing a player out of the blue due to his or his relatives’ financial shenanigans.
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KUSTEVE said:
@BShark If I’m not mistaken, JJ hadn’t yet committed to KU when she took the money, right?
Correct.
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@CRH107 that’s what I meant
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@BShark And our coaching staff weren’t in charge of the disbursement of said funds, right?
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@JayHawkFanToo @mayjay All I’m saying is that like Cliff and Diallo there was a ton of smoke around Preston. Whatever the type may be (academic with Diallo, shady stuff with Cliff). Self would have to be really bad at his job (he isn’t, btw) to not have a general idea. Then Preston gets to campus, the whole FBI thing leaks. At this point you know the staff is looking extra hard into all players on the team to make damn sure they are eligible. Then Preston gets a suspension for something as small as a curfew violation? I didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday.
@KUSTEVE Right. It came from an agent. KU isn’t tied to it.
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And according to Izzo, “While we will cooperate with any and all investigations,” Izzo said, “we have no reason to believe that I, any member of our staff or student-athlete did anything in violation of NCAA rules.”
And meanwhile, Self’s response, “I haven’t had a chance to study it yet,” Self said of the story. “At this point in time I reserve comment."
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Just teasing with you…because you posted apples and @KUSTEVE posted oranges. I know, I should take this far more seriously.
